Re: [PATCH] Let .git/config specify the url for submodules

From: Junio C Hamano <junkio@cox.net>
Date: Jun 2, 2007, 09:15 UTC
Message-ID: <7vejkuyaxq.fsf@assigned-by-dhcp.cox.net>
In-Reply-To: <8c5c35580706020139k3beae8bbj3f51eee0ff5fd30c@mail.gmail.com>

"Lars Hjemli" <hjemli@gmail.com> writes:

> But why would we want to design .gitmodules in a way that makes it
> hard to do the mapping from path to url?

Perhaps because "path" is not the "identity" of the subproject, but the (logical) subproject name is?

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